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Ferhat Arslan1, Fehmi Tabak, Emin Avşar, Kenan Midilli, Ali Mert, Resat Ozaras, Teoman Soysal, Recep Ozturk, Burhan Ferhanoglu.
Abstract
We describe a 41-year-old patient, who upon receiving a bone marrow transplant in order to treat chronic myeloid leukemia, developed cytomegalovirus (CNV) retinitis and encephalitis under the ganciclovir maintenance treatment. Analysis of sequential viral isolates recovered from the patient's cerebrospinal fluid and blood showed CMV DNA with a UL97 mutation (M460V) known to confer ganciclovir resistance. Foscarnet resistance mutations were not found. Although therapy was switched to foscarnet when ganciclovir resistance was suspected, the patient was lost on posttransplant day 200.Entities:
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Year: 2010 PMID: 20345320 DOI: 10.3109/13550281003682539
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Neurovirol ISSN: 1355-0284 Impact factor: 2.643